Barbara Bush’s Literacy Foundation to Rename and Return to Its Original Mission

The former first lady’s literacy work will operate under the George & Barbara Bush Foundation.

Earlier this month, Dorothy Bush Koch, honorary chair, Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy (BBFFL) and board member of the George & Barbara Bush Foundation, announced the BBFFL will return to its original mission and operate primarily as a national grantmaking organization. As a result, the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy will soon evolve into the Barbara Bush Fund for Family Literacy at the George & Barbara Bush Foundation.

Rather than operating its own family literacy programs, the Fund will amplify its impact by investing in existing well-respected national and community-based organizations.

“This transition represents a return to the roots of Mom’s literacy work: providing direct support to reach the families and communities most in need,” Koch said in a statement. “Mom chose her beloved cause of literacy based on a simple, but powerful belief: ‘If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we would be that much closer to solving so many of the problems that …